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. >> what do you think about the current political situation in america? >> i think the current political situation in america is very interesting. it's ripe for a libertarian-leaning person or group of people to really show them how you do 2 when you lift government and people's lives can be better. now we're seeing in political so many ways government can actually be not only a destructive force but a terrifying force. if you stop and think about it, when conspiracy they are resists start sounding rash tell me, you know the government is in trouble. >> you have another chapter in here "rudie can fail ." what is the chapter about? >> the chapter is about mayor giuliani in his own tenure in new york city in 1994 really trying to bring the video music awards to new york city. the last few years they had been in los angeles. i actually attended the last three where mtv was going to build the headquarter. they were going take it out of times square. the mayor said we'll rule -- roll out the red carpet. the mtv took on the change. they said we're going let som
. >> what do you think about the current political situation in america? >> i think the current political situation in america is very interesting. it's ripe for a libertarian-leaning person or group of people to really show them how you do 2 when you lift government and people's lives can be better. now we're seeing in political so many ways government can actually be not only a destructive force but a terrifying force. if you stop and think about it, when conspiracy they are...
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. >> next, an interview with ishmael beah from book of america on his book on the radiance of tomorrow. this is about 15 minutes. >> on your screen is ishmael beah, author of a long way gone. the second book is coming out, mr. beah. why did you choose to make it a novel? >> first of all, i wanted to depart from the memoirs and nonfiction. second, the issues i read about in the new book, "radiance of tomorrow," it's about a lot of people. experiences going home after war another people six euros, so it is composite of the tanks. i want to have the freedom to play around with words and images. >> what kind of freedom is writing a novel gave you rather than nonfiction? >> with the novel, for me particularly there's room to play with language more than to actually maybe extend the recurrence is. you know, expand them more and traumatize them a little more. they were also in the same time. the runaway coming to us whatever they wanted they wanted to do was this novel i talk about things that existed before the war. after work, and the existed again. so i try to put them together in a way th
. >> next, an interview with ishmael beah from book of america on his book on the radiance of tomorrow. this is about 15 minutes. >> on your screen is ishmael beah, author of a long way gone. the second book is coming out, mr. beah. why did you choose to make it a novel? >> first of all, i wanted to depart from the memoirs and nonfiction. second, the issues i read about in the new book, "radiance of tomorrow," it's about a lot of people. experiences going home after...
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. >> host: what do you think about the political situation in america? >> guest: the current political situation is interesting. it is right for a libertarian leaning person or group of people to show them how you do it when you limit government and how people's life could be better. now we see in so many ways in which people would not imagine for five years ago that government can be not only a destructive force, but a terrifying force. if you stop and think about it, in conspiracy theories start sounding rational, you know the government is in trouble. >> host: kennedy, you have another chapter in here. rudy can see how about mayor giuliani? >> guest: just. that chapter is about mayor giuliani and his young tenure in new york city in 1994 tried to bring the video music awards back to new york city. the last two years they been in los angeles. i attended the last three video music awards were mtv was going to build headquarters and take it out of times square. the mayor said no, we will throw out the red carpet for you. mtv took on the challenge and for
. >> host: what do you think about the political situation in america? >> guest: the current political situation is interesting. it is right for a libertarian leaning person or group of people to show them how you do it when you limit government and how people's life could be better. now we see in so many ways in which people would not imagine for five years ago that government can be not only a destructive force, but a terrifying force. if you stop and think about it, in conspiracy...
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we tax you have your aunt in america it's a different kind of economy. [inaudible] >> that's a good way to look at it. >> i guess my point about the 50s there were a lot of factors in place to build a good lifestyle for average earners. you could buy a house for $100. there was easy credit so you could fill about football kinds of appliances. you could go to the chevy dealer the ford dealer in the car you bought would be a lot like someone who was a lot wealthier than you. it was a much flatter distribution of wealth. all those factors are basically gone now. it's much more segmented so there was this unique home and in time where if you were an average american you could benefit in all kinds of ways that you couldn't 10 years later and now it's much worse than ever. we are just a much more divisive society much more niche oriented. that was my point comparing what happened in the decade and how it was a neat moment in time that will never come back. and how things change very rapidly after that because of all kinds of economic and social factors. good p
we tax you have your aunt in america it's a different kind of economy. [inaudible] >> that's a good way to look at it. >> i guess my point about the 50s there were a lot of factors in place to build a good lifestyle for average earners. you could buy a house for $100. there was easy credit so you could fill about football kinds of appliances. you could go to the chevy dealer the ford dealer in the car you bought would be a lot like someone who was a lot wealthier than you. it was a...
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. >> host: would you think about the current political situation in america? >> guest: it is very interesting. ripe for a libertarian group of people to really show them how you doing it and how people's lives can be better because now we see in so many ways that people would not imagine four or five years ago that a terrifyingly force if you stop and think about it, when conspiracy theorist start selling rational you know, it is in trouble. >> host: you have another chapter in here is this about mayor judy collins -- judea -- mayor guiliani. >> guest: into his tenure he tried to bring the video music awards to york city and had been in los angeles. i attended the last three at universal wert mtv was going to take it out a times square and the mayor said we will roll out the red carpet and they took on a challenge for the first year they said we will let some of the vj really be a part of the show and present the awards had we will treat you like stars. it is a new era. by 22nd birthday i was so excited. one of the very first things i did on camera with bill b
. >> host: would you think about the current political situation in america? >> guest: it is very interesting. ripe for a libertarian group of people to really show them how you doing it and how people's lives can be better because now we see in so many ways that people would not imagine four or five years ago that a terrifyingly force if you stop and think about it, when conspiracy theorist start selling rational you know, it is in trouble. >> host: you have another chapter...
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. >> next, from the annual publishing industry tradeshow, book expo america. a panel discussion on the future of the publishing industry. it's 45 minutes. >> hello everybody. i'm the director for the center for publishing at new york university and thanks so much for coming to our panel discussion, "rising industry insiders: what those new to the publishing industry think about its future." i'm sure those of you have been attending other conferences have been listening to what some of the very senior publishing executives have to say about their vision of the publishing industry going forward. but this afternoon you hear something a little different. you're going to get the viewpoint of those were new to the industry. we have free of our current welcome one just graduated, but three of our best in science punishing students here today and one alumnus and they will present their thoughts on what all of you in the industry in general should be doing fresh, relevant and innovative in these challenging times. we come to the separation, all of them are working in t
. >> next, from the annual publishing industry tradeshow, book expo america. a panel discussion on the future of the publishing industry. it's 45 minutes. >> hello everybody. i'm the director for the center for publishing at new york university and thanks so much for coming to our panel discussion, "rising industry insiders: what those new to the publishing industry think about its future." i'm sure those of you have been attending other conferences have been listening to...
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something increasingly driven since the end of the cold war by america's unique capability to project the enormous amounts of conventional military force into the middle east. no one else, not even chided can project this kind of military force into the middle east today or four years to come. this has given the united states extraordinary economic and political influence in the middle east and we forced the military dominance in other key parts of the world. but our failures in afghanistan and iraq in particular have underscored and especially for the middle east republics, the limits of what american military might can accomplish. we argue these failures of the middle east policy are not just idiosyncratic generated products of the george to be bush said ministration but as we described in our book fees stemming from a much deeper source that cut through both democratic and republican did frustration than something we describe as the united states each essentially giving in to the post cold war temptation to act as an imperial power in the middle east and this turned in policy with
something increasingly driven since the end of the cold war by america's unique capability to project the enormous amounts of conventional military force into the middle east. no one else, not even chided can project this kind of military force into the middle east today or four years to come. this has given the united states extraordinary economic and political influence in the middle east and we forced the military dominance in other key parts of the world. but our failures in afghanistan and...
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particularly in a community such as harlem and throughout new york city and throughout urban america to say that drugs are not the problem is kind of difficult for us to swallow when we look around us. and the things we see seem to be associated with the use of drugs, the abuse of drugs. so tell me more about why we shouldn't be so upset about drugs as a problem. >> well, i want to make sure that i'm clear and i'm not trying to be reckless here because i'm not reckless. you don't get to be in my position and be be reckless, that just doesn't happen. particularly looking like i look. you don't get to be reckless. [laughter] prison -- [applause] >> so what i mean when i say that drugs are not the problem, i mean that -- let me give you some thattist you cans. when we think about drugs like cocaine, 80, 90% be of the people who used cocaine including crack cocaine, 80, 90% of them don't have a problem. they go to work. they go to work, they pay their taxes, they are responsible individuals. same is true for other drugs. but you do have a small percentage who have problems, 10, 20%. and
particularly in a community such as harlem and throughout new york city and throughout urban america to say that drugs are not the problem is kind of difficult for us to swallow when we look around us. and the things we see seem to be associated with the use of drugs, the abuse of drugs. so tell me more about why we shouldn't be so upset about drugs as a problem. >> well, i want to make sure that i'm clear and i'm not trying to be reckless here because i'm not reckless. you don't get to...
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because if we advance america by only focusing on america, as the world gets smaller and smaller with international travel, revolution and communications, the world will get smaller while the barriers between us increase. and so when she was dying, she wanted to get this out. when fdr died, harrold, the longest serving member of -- with francis perkins, the longest serving member of fdr's cabinet, and who was secretary of labor -- , i mean, secretary of the interior in truman's administration came up to meet with eleanor roosevelt. that had a conversation in front of the steps of the library. he writes her back a recap of this conversation. he asked her to run for governor, to run for the senate from new york, to be secretary of labor, to engage in create political organizing work. major ivy leagues were coming to el nor and saying will you be president? she turns them down and writes harold, you need not worry, my voice will not be silent. and as she aged and as she became my distance from the white house. she became more outspoken on the political impact that she had while she was i
because if we advance america by only focusing on america, as the world gets smaller and smaller with international travel, revolution and communications, the world will get smaller while the barriers between us increase. and so when she was dying, she wanted to get this out. when fdr died, harrold, the longest serving member of -- with francis perkins, the longest serving member of fdr's cabinet, and who was secretary of labor -- , i mean, secretary of the interior in truman's administration...
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i called him america's -- he would be -- so police officer by the side. he would have a cup of vodka in one hand and a cigarette in the other hand. and, you know, the key to the city and mayor on there in the trunk of the car. en-- when i set out to write a book about him. he was to be the embodiment of american politics the good and the bad. he reflected providence, which as one of america's oldest cities to me really, embodies the american political story. he grew up in a privileged background eye tannial-american. he grew up in the silter -- silver lake neighborhood of providence. he went to moses brown, a was he became a lawyer and a prosecutor. prosecuted mobster. he became a republican and democratic irish city. and then he ran for mayor in the 19 70s. 1974 and basically upset the providence of the democratic machine and became this italian-american republican mayor in the '70s and attracted the attention of the white house at the time general ford was. and jerry ford was very taken with him. he saw him as a way to embody what the republicans are tr
i called him america's -- he would be -- so police officer by the side. he would have a cup of vodka in one hand and a cigarette in the other hand. and, you know, the key to the city and mayor on there in the trunk of the car. en-- when i set out to write a book about him. he was to be the embodiment of american politics the good and the bad. he reflected providence, which as one of america's oldest cities to me really, embodies the american political story. he grew up in a privileged...
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this, a fundamental cause of the rising inequality of wealth in america but it is also true that fears of deflationary persist in the world of commodities, equities in emerging countries and at central banks. they haunt the fed and the financial market not least because foreign economies try to adjust t and disorderly fall and now the rise of the dollar on foreign-exchanges. indeed, manipulated, floating exchange rates engage all flow demonic forces of light and mercantilism and foreign exchange controls. the combination of which has the power to destroy the international trading system as in fact it did during the interwar period from 1920 to 1940. let me touch briefly on only a few of these subjects during our discussion. in boat full light of history, the past century has been preeminently the era of financial disorder, an era inaugurated by world war i, a catastrophic and suicidal act of the west entailing the self immolation of the european great powers. it destroyed not only much of european civilization and the flower of its manhood but also destroyed the monetary system associa
this, a fundamental cause of the rising inequality of wealth in america but it is also true that fears of deflationary persist in the world of commodities, equities in emerging countries and at central banks. they haunt the fed and the financial market not least because foreign economies try to adjust t and disorderly fall and now the rise of the dollar on foreign-exchanges. indeed, manipulated, floating exchange rates engage all flow demonic forces of light and mercantilism and foreign...
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a nation to the south of the united states of america. and that opens up a whole new world, a world that we can only imagine because it never existed, but think for a minute, united states, from baltimore all the way down through around florida, down along the gulf coast, the end of texas, that would be a foreign territory. would not be part of the united states. in fact, the united states would have no real access to either the atlantic or the caribbean, except for a narrow path from baltimore north as far as boston. beyond that it's not very good harbors anyway. so all of a sudden the great coast, the atlantic coast of the trend is mirrored down to the point where it can be blockaded, everything has to be funneled. it doesn't mean for the united states would collapse under its own weight. it means that united states would no longer have anywhere near the presence in the western hemisphere in terms of dealing with british intervention, or french intervention. i remind my readers that in 1865, the french had troops, technically it was the
a nation to the south of the united states of america. and that opens up a whole new world, a world that we can only imagine because it never existed, but think for a minute, united states, from baltimore all the way down through around florida, down along the gulf coast, the end of texas, that would be a foreign territory. would not be part of the united states. in fact, the united states would have no real access to either the atlantic or the caribbean, except for a narrow path from baltimore...
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williamson talks about the imbalance of wealth in america. >> you remember this oliver stone movie wall street and the character who gets hung around our necks as a poster board for capitalism. what i like is the famous poster using the motorola cell phone from 1984. because i am under i have an interest in technology and cell phones and such. this is the 40th anniversary it's been a mixed blessing obviously. the motorola brick that he had cost almost $10,000 in $2,013. would cost nearly a thousand dollars to operate, a couple hours stand by coming you couldn't play angry birds or trade the stock or check your e-mail or send a text message or anything else. you had to be gordon gecko to own one. they are expensive. i want to say that there was an 16 candles and it's in a rolls-royce because that's where they were. now you talk to college students, you talk to people who are not gordon gecko, who are not millionaires, and everyone has this in his pocket. there is a lady that owns a coffee shop down the street from my office in new york. she is from bangladesh and she has the same cell ph
williamson talks about the imbalance of wealth in america. >> you remember this oliver stone movie wall street and the character who gets hung around our necks as a poster board for capitalism. what i like is the famous poster using the motorola cell phone from 1984. because i am under i have an interest in technology and cell phones and such. this is the 40th anniversary it's been a mixed blessing obviously. the motorola brick that he had cost almost $10,000 in $2,013. would cost nearly...
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i don't think any north americans would view winnipeg is the most beautiful city in north america but if you go to winnipeg now what you would see are a lot of splendid ill things which are put up around a fantastic -- built in 1913. very grand, not lots of gold and tremendous to developed scale. once gets a tremendous confidence about the future and indeed winnipeg in 1913 was one of the fastest-growing cities. the idea was the future was very much winnipeg's to take. if you go there now you wouldn't get the same feeling. in fact you might say 1913 was the highpoint. but i think it's important to remind oneself of periods of time in the past when expectations of the future in this case an expectation that winnipeg would be the great capital of the prairies, people are very confident about these things then they turn out to be somewhat misplaced. for india, is there really one india or another? perhaps there are hundreds of india's. i choose to look at bombay in that year. india of course is part of the british empire the lynchpin of the british empire tremendously important economica
i don't think any north americans would view winnipeg is the most beautiful city in north america but if you go to winnipeg now what you would see are a lot of splendid ill things which are put up around a fantastic -- built in 1913. very grand, not lots of gold and tremendous to developed scale. once gets a tremendous confidence about the future and indeed winnipeg in 1913 was one of the fastest-growing cities. the idea was the future was very much winnipeg's to take. if you go there now you...
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the book is about america. for all i know, the french are a very paranoid people, but we are. >> they say just because you are paranoid doesn't mean that you are not being followed or watched. is there some legitimacy? >> people can fire. that's part of life. one reason why we are always going to have the conspiracy theory is there is always been to be some conspiracy but not like the vampire is dying out. the investigation after watergate when all sorts of revelations came out about the irs so there are a real conspiracy. but what i'm also trying to do is look at the conspiracy theory is that say absolutely nothing true about the object of the fury but they still say all sorts of things to do about the anxiety and the difference of the people. the story doesn't pass on until people have a reason to believe it. >> what is a contemporary example of that? >> i think that all sorts of theories that involved fighting against american liberty and sovereignty are going to appeal to people that feel like they are losi
the book is about america. for all i know, the french are a very paranoid people, but we are. >> they say just because you are paranoid doesn't mean that you are not being followed or watched. is there some legitimacy? >> people can fire. that's part of life. one reason why we are always going to have the conspiracy theory is there is always been to be some conspiracy but not like the vampire is dying out. the investigation after watergate when all sorts of revelations came out...
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interview with joe madison, talks about his book ebony and ivy, race, slavery and a troubled history of america's universities. we wrap up tonight's prime-time programming and of:00 eastern with the biography of charles manson. visible tv.org for more of this weekend's television schedule. .. >> for making such a beautiful book, as you can see. it really is quite lovely. i'm talking just about the physicality. you can judge for the insight on your own. [laughter] but as nick said very cogently, this book covers a 30-year span of american history in the middle of the 19th century when nothing much happened. [laughter] there was just, oh, i don't know, the women's movement and the country divided in two, and there were spiritualists and spirit rappers and p.t. barnum all part of the same cultural moment. and then just in case you were getting bored, there was a war, a dreadful war where 750,000 people were killed, and that's probably, that's probably a figure that is not finished being revised upward. and, of course, there was the period of reconstruction that occurred in the south, and at the same
interview with joe madison, talks about his book ebony and ivy, race, slavery and a troubled history of america's universities. we wrap up tonight's prime-time programming and of:00 eastern with the biography of charles manson. visible tv.org for more of this weekend's television schedule. .. >> for making such a beautiful book, as you can see. it really is quite lovely. i'm talking just about the physicality. you can judge for the insight on your own. [laughter] but as nick said very...
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only in america could two bicycle mechanics launch an aviation industry and so forth. now, what's important here is that all of these figures share a number of key traits. well, one, they were largely or wholly self-taught. that is, they were not products of formal education. as a result, they had freed themselves from the constraints of conventional wisdom and traditional authority. they preferred practical solutions to theoretical discussion. they were, in essence, engineers not mathematicians. in other words, they were supreme practitioners of what i mean by be useful knowledge. be -- now, attempts in general to explain america's technological prowess, i've found, generally revolve around the notion it is our political and social systems that provided the ideal platform for innovation and for the associated economic growth, prosperity and the pursuit of happiness. so in this view it was the new republic shaped by the founding fathers that set the stage for an explosion of innovation during the 19th and 20th centuries. an explosion that we can all agree continues to
only in america could two bicycle mechanics launch an aviation industry and so forth. now, what's important here is that all of these figures share a number of key traits. well, one, they were largely or wholly self-taught. that is, they were not products of formal education. as a result, they had freed themselves from the constraints of conventional wisdom and traditional authority. they preferred practical solutions to theoretical discussion. they were, in essence, engineers not...
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i mean, the larger ones are coming from central america when there was a grenade tossed over the fence at the con late in monterrey. it was columbian manufactured. but no doubt it's, you know, a challenge. there are no easy answers. if i had them, i would put them out a long time ago. >> anything to add to that? >> no, i mean, i know that is more -- reporter we get blamed when something happens. i don't comment. i just keep writing. >> i think we are about out of time. i'm getting the cane around the neck sign to wrap it up. let me take a quick moment and be sure to thank our partners here. most especially the tower center for housing this. c-span for filming it. barn and noble for providing the books, and the museum, and most especially the ambassador for joining us and al >> i can thank you. it's an evening i'll never forget. and it's kind of his idea from the beginning. thank you so much. [applause] you're watching booktv non-fiction authors and booking every weekend on c-span2. this is a place where you have to know what you're about. there will be other people who want to tell you
i mean, the larger ones are coming from central america when there was a grenade tossed over the fence at the con late in monterrey. it was columbian manufactured. but no doubt it's, you know, a challenge. there are no easy answers. if i had them, i would put them out a long time ago. >> anything to add to that? >> no, i mean, i know that is more -- reporter we get blamed when something happens. i don't comment. i just keep writing. >> i think we are about out of time. i'm...
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because all of you are sitting and standing on one of the most important historical places in north america. here just right on our crown, africans and europeans and american indian people came together and really begin to work together to create an american civilization in an american society. this is one of the very first times this happens and it's happening here under this ground the archaeological investigation has shown evidence of the way these three cultures can together. so it is a very exciting thing to be welcoming mac's book back to the site and of all of the historians and scholars that i have worked with over many years have such a profound sense of sight and place. as you heard she's gathered material from archives on the four continents and has brought together an extraordinary kind of learning but the thing that makes her unique is her ability to see to capture through her eyes the kind of sense of all the landscapes' work so it's a great pleasure for me to be here today and to share with you the convergence of this book and the site. thank you. [applause] thank you. that i
because all of you are sitting and standing on one of the most important historical places in north america. here just right on our crown, africans and europeans and american indian people came together and really begin to work together to create an american civilization in an american society. this is one of the very first times this happens and it's happening here under this ground the archaeological investigation has shown evidence of the way these three cultures can together. so it is a...
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we're standing in some of the poorest places in america right now. you'd have to go not border lands of texas or appalachia to find the poverty that we have here, and that really is a function of the kind of agriculture we have. we have big industrial agriculture that concentrated wealth in a few hands, and that depends on a constant supply of cheap labor, and for most of the century, that cheap labor's come from south of the border, and farmers here are reaching deeper and deeper into the rural pes cant heart of mexico to bring out the labor, but there's been problems with that flow now and again, and that's why the farmers have reached to other people. seeks came here to pick, chinese, japanese, mong, all the small farmers, and then the black oakees at some point and whites were brought from the south and southwest to come here and pick the crops. some of them moved up the economic ladder, became tractor drivers, truck drivers, business owners, that's happened with the white oakees. happened with latinos, some of them. the black oakees, though, had
we're standing in some of the poorest places in america right now. you'd have to go not border lands of texas or appalachia to find the poverty that we have here, and that really is a function of the kind of agriculture we have. we have big industrial agriculture that concentrated wealth in a few hands, and that depends on a constant supply of cheap labor, and for most of the century, that cheap labor's come from south of the border, and farmers here are reaching deeper and deeper into the...
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it is the saga of 19th century immigrants seeking success in america as tailors, pressers, and cutters. most of the more than 200,000 jews who immigrated to the u.s. between 1825 and 1875 found work as peddlers and small shopkeepers. it was the massive demand for uniforms for both north and south in the civil war that was the everyonetous for standardizing sizing for men's ware, and by the first decades of the 20th century, jewish immigrants built the new york based garment trade into a billion dollar a year industry. i have a couple ads on this slide. you see the little ad on the left is from 1877, and it's just a jumble of fonts, no picture, no sales pitch, and 20 years later, the ad from a paper called "the hub" on the right-hand side became a little more organized, a little more visual, and more focused on persuasion, although still very unsophisticated, and you can see that, the pictures of the men's clothing are almost like clip art. a few years later, this slide from early 1900s shows you that they have changed -- it was actually something called apirl art. it was a men's trade
it is the saga of 19th century immigrants seeking success in america as tailors, pressers, and cutters. most of the more than 200,000 jews who immigrated to the u.s. between 1825 and 1875 found work as peddlers and small shopkeepers. it was the massive demand for uniforms for both north and south in the civil war that was the everyonetous for standardizing sizing for men's ware, and by the first decades of the 20th century, jewish immigrants built the new york based garment trade into a billion...
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the erie canal in the railroads, and off the coast of south america. they toasted each other from the tinker's now when the metropolitan museum of art, which was purchased with the money made from their successful economic adventures. it now what is in visible is equally a part of our national history. sylvester manor is a cradle of slavery as richard said it became natural system. suez new england throughout the south as far west as texas. in 1680, nathaniel sylvester in english and brought up in amsterdam and his english wife counted 24 people as their property. the largest number in the north of the time, 11 men and women and 13 children. many have african names and others had creel names such as chiuaro that tells you they had come from other places besides africa. the and then transported to the west indies or to brazil to where this could be a man of french origin, the ending tells you it probably has a hispanic connotation. conjure with it as you like to read. the labor produced the first well for the sylvester's from the west indies sugar trade
the erie canal in the railroads, and off the coast of south america. they toasted each other from the tinker's now when the metropolitan museum of art, which was purchased with the money made from their successful economic adventures. it now what is in visible is equally a part of our national history. sylvester manor is a cradle of slavery as richard said it became natural system. suez new england throughout the south as far west as texas. in 1680, nathaniel sylvester in english and brought up...
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really a wonderful glimpse of what it was like to be in america on the home front during the war. >> in the 1990s, nasa scientists detected a mysterious force that was slowing down the pioneer 10 and pioneer 11 spacecraft. the first manmade objects to leave the solar system. konstantin ca
really a wonderful glimpse of what it was like to be in america on the home front during the war. >> in the 1990s, nasa scientists detected a mysterious force that was slowing down the pioneer 10 and pioneer 11 spacecraft. the first manmade objects to leave the solar system. konstantin ca
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hello, america, hang on to your lights. they are the only lights left in the world. hitchcock got it right. hitler's army and air force already crushed norway, denmark, holland, belgium, and france. great britain was left standing alone. in august of 1940, the battle of britain began. almost every night until may 194 1, planes dropped tens of thousands of tons of bombs over london, liverpool, birmingham, south hampton, bristol, and other industrial cities and ports. everything that we value most in life was ob the bring. the civilization, precious legacy of the enlightenment, and thomas jefferson's immortal affirmation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of the happiness, and we also value the survival of great britain. in 1789 hamilton said, we think in english. with that breech statement, he encopslated the profound, intellectual, and cultural ties that binds the united states and britain. in 1940, the fate of the world hung on the united states, and that summer, republicans and democrats would hold their conventions in preparation for the november presidential elect
hello, america, hang on to your lights. they are the only lights left in the world. hitchcock got it right. hitler's army and air force already crushed norway, denmark, holland, belgium, and france. great britain was left standing alone. in august of 1940, the battle of britain began. almost every night until may 194 1, planes dropped tens of thousands of tons of bombs over london, liverpool, birmingham, south hampton, bristol, and other industrial cities and ports. everything that we value...
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in a speech, he said, i see an america for which democracy will arise to a new birth, an america which will once more provide this war torn world with a clear glimpse of the destiny of man. at noon, on tuesday, october 29th, exactly one week before the november 1940 election, a lottery took place in an auditorium in washington. a few weeks earlier, congress passed the slebtive -- selective agent for universal military training and service. it was the first piece time draft in american history. the lottery would determine the order in which american boys would be called up. on a table in the middle of the stage sat a huge glass bowl filled with 9,000 capsules, each with a different registration number. the audience was packed with cabinet members, senators, congressmen, young men, parents, and reporters. they all grew quiet when they saw president roosevelt walk slowly on to the stage on the arm of his assistance. he gave a short talk that was broadcast across the nation. this is a solemn ceremony, he said. it's accompanied by no fanfare, no blowing of bugles or beating of drums. he exp
in a speech, he said, i see an america for which democracy will arise to a new birth, an america which will once more provide this war torn world with a clear glimpse of the destiny of man. at noon, on tuesday, october 29th, exactly one week before the november 1940 election, a lottery took place in an auditorium in washington. a few weeks earlier, congress passed the slebtive -- selective agent for universal military training and service. it was the first piece time draft in american history....
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alien conspiracy theory the southern italian and sicilian immigrants brought the mafia with them to america at the turn of the last century at what the sociologists call the succession. it's simply that various ethnic groups have used crime in order to advance in society. look around today and see who the poor people are, often immigrants succumbed to her country. people do come with no money or regulated to the worst neighborhoods, the poor sections of the city, lack of opportunity, no jobs available to them and this even applies to african-americans who emigrated to rural areas of the south. so they turn to crime at the people discriminated against, people excluded from social advancement historically have turned to crime in order to better themselves. not as an excuse but a reality. this is what's known as the ethnic succession. the irish coming jewish people, italians, blacks, hispanics in that order heaviest organized criminal activity as a means of social advancement with american society. if we look at traditional organized crime, the chicago outfit in earlier known as the component
alien conspiracy theory the southern italian and sicilian immigrants brought the mafia with them to america at the turn of the last century at what the sociologists call the succession. it's simply that various ethnic groups have used crime in order to advance in society. look around today and see who the poor people are, often immigrants succumbed to her country. people do come with no money or regulated to the worst neighborhoods, the poor sections of the city, lack of opportunity, no jobs...
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then an 14% of the top jobs in corporate america for ten years. you taught me very clearly that transit go a prolonged time in and are flat for a long time to go up again. they often go down. you have to be worried about the boehner held back by all kinds of external barriers, institutional bad public policy, barriers. all of that is really important. we're also held back by the internal a session of stereotypes. niebuhr at my wedding, so you remember this. this step and give a toast. we're not really her younger brother and sister. we're really her first employees , one into. she never really played as a truck. she just organized of the children. it is funny. funnyman fine now. they said it was love, but it was something. if they're saying, the question is how we experience that because of the stereotypes? that's expected. one of the monroe leaves organizes other kids, she is bossy which we are communicating very young. it is the stereotypes that we internalize. everyone can do this. get to a meeting and what will people say. the women said the b
then an 14% of the top jobs in corporate america for ten years. you taught me very clearly that transit go a prolonged time in and are flat for a long time to go up again. they often go down. you have to be worried about the boehner held back by all kinds of external barriers, institutional bad public policy, barriers. all of that is really important. we're also held back by the internal a session of stereotypes. niebuhr at my wedding, so you remember this. this step and give a toast. we're not...
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hello, america, he says to the radio audience back home. i've been watching a part of the world being blown to pieces. a part of the world as nice as vermont, ohio, virginia, and california and illinois. all of that noise you hear isn't static, it's death coming to london. you can hear the bombs falling on streets and the homes. this is a big story. you're part of it. it's too late to do anything here except stand in the dark and let them come. it's as if the light were out everywhere except in america. keep those lights burning. cover them with steel, rig them with guns, build a canopy of "battleship" and bombing planes around them. hello, america, hang on to your lights. they're the only lights left in the world. hitchcock got it right. hitler's nazi army and air force crushed norway, denmark, holland, norway, and france. governorgreat britain was left standing alone. in 1940, the battle began. almost every night until may 1941, the planes would drop tens of thownldzs -- thousands of tons of bombs over london, liverpool, birmingham, south
hello, america, he says to the radio audience back home. i've been watching a part of the world being blown to pieces. a part of the world as nice as vermont, ohio, virginia, and california and illinois. all of that noise you hear isn't static, it's death coming to london. you can hear the bombs falling on streets and the homes. this is a big story. you're part of it. it's too late to do anything here except stand in the dark and let them come. it's as if the light were out everywhere except in...
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romney and the future of elections in america is a follow on to the book dan and haynes johnson wrote about the 2008 campaign. and as dan says of the new book, he hadn't expected obama's second run for the presidency to turn out quite as compelling as the first groundbreaking one did but it did. the campaign did turn out to be just as compelling although in different ways. howell raines reviewing the book in the post the other day called it quote old-fashioned in a good sense, referring to the fact that it's filled with attributed quotes and closed focus reportage and thankfully lacks windy and alice's. but dam also shows a modern-day appreciation for the new technologies and social media the obama camp aim puts to such effective use. if you really want to understand why the election turned out as it did for america's political future read this book. we will be life tweeting tonight's event speaking of modern technology and social media, so you can follow along with the conversation at hashtag balz dca. dan will speak for a bit and we will leave time for questions. if you have a quest
romney and the future of elections in america is a follow on to the book dan and haynes johnson wrote about the 2008 campaign. and as dan says of the new book, he hadn't expected obama's second run for the presidency to turn out quite as compelling as the first groundbreaking one did but it did. the campaign did turn out to be just as compelling although in different ways. howell raines reviewing the book in the post the other day called it quote old-fashioned in a good sense, referring to the...
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global crossings, immigration, civilization and america. at 9:20 p.m. eastern, the book brotherhood. a look at individual pounds after immigration. later at 10:35 p.m., moving to the u.s. from china and chinese girl in the ghetto. that is booktv in primetime starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span2. history tv features a battle of gettysburg. at 8:00 p.m. eastern, carol reardon talks about gettysburg national military park. at 9:00 p.m., the ceremony commemorating the 150th anniversary of the battle with doris kearns goodwin. american history tv in prime time on c-span3. >> what is on your summer reading list? >> i have the book by matt wallace served on my night table and i have started reading it. i also read a lot of books on meditation and i'm also reading a book called the buddhist way of meditation. i do meditate and i have done yoga for 30 years. and i am always catching up on that part of my reading. the next book is very much the next thing i'm going to read, it is called interest things by matt wallace served and it starts with a group of
global crossings, immigration, civilization and america. at 9:20 p.m. eastern, the book brotherhood. a look at individual pounds after immigration. later at 10:35 p.m., moving to the u.s. from china and chinese girl in the ghetto. that is booktv in primetime starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span2. history tv features a battle of gettysburg. at 8:00 p.m. eastern, carol reardon talks about gettysburg national military park. at 9:00 p.m., the ceremony commemorating the 150th anniversary of...
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but when he came to america he found dying of silk was not in great demand. he became a candle and soap maker. this is a pattern that followed quite consistently without restrictive guild does chelation, people were much freer to pursue new interest, to develop new skills. and that played into this notion that we can have useful knowledge, practical knowledge that advance is not only our own social position with that of our society. so as a result many of these master craftsman or even mechanic or even a lowly tournament could aspire to become an independent entrepreneur with considerable economic security and a company social status and political influence. this movement was further mode, particularly annually by the puritans added more so in and around philadelphia with large quaker population, both put a premium on labor and particularly on the nobility of labor. so working with one's hands producing something, laboring honestly was a social good that perhaps and carried connotations that it didn't always carry back into europe. so as a say in the journeym
but when he came to america he found dying of silk was not in great demand. he became a candle and soap maker. this is a pattern that followed quite consistently without restrictive guild does chelation, people were much freer to pursue new interest, to develop new skills. and that played into this notion that we can have useful knowledge, practical knowledge that advance is not only our own social position with that of our society. so as a result many of these master craftsman or even mechanic...
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really one of the things of the great victories of the 20th-century for america. did you have any anxiety? the story of people who pushed back. >> guest: zero, yes. this is not the book that i expected to write. i went into it thinking that -- and that think especially the integration was a good thing. and it did. brought people together. it made me think differently about the world. a lot of my classmates. and one of the things i side often, during the heyday of desegregation and busing in the 70's and 80's we actually found the achievement gap shrinking faster than ever. so that's a big deal. so there was accomplishments. >> host: the desegregation. i mean, the debt was so huge. access to books and resources and things. you know, the ones that argue that the actual desegregation process was incidental. >> guest: i think that's really hard to separate out. people who researched, how it affects kids, it's kind of hard to say. is it because kids are learning from each other or is it because if you are black child in a classroom with the majority white middle-class
really one of the things of the great victories of the 20th-century for america. did you have any anxiety? the story of people who pushed back. >> guest: zero, yes. this is not the book that i expected to write. i went into it thinking that -- and that think especially the integration was a good thing. and it did. brought people together. it made me think differently about the world. a lot of my classmates. and one of the things i side often, during the heyday of desegregation and busing...
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but if you say, so how are recovering the state of the immigrants in america today, i would say that we are covering the politics of it very well. we sort of know what's going on in the senate subcommittee of the judiciary committee, but do we know what's going on in their lives? are we living with them and telling their stories? and the answer is no. and i think that sort of a national problem and it's not just down here. who but we don't see reporters in the field. without a proper driver's license. and we don't see them, somebody texting their parents can be careful, i got caught on a traffic violation. they may be coming after you. we don't see that. i think we will. i'm hopeful we'll get back to that, that i think online has multiple opportunities for deep reporting. and i look forward to it, kissing more that. >> one of the problems, who's interested in reading about poor people? i mean, it's one thing to read about poor people as they report in 1936, but i know of a project in washington that is trying to cultivate reporters for reporting the social crisis right now that's env
but if you say, so how are recovering the state of the immigrants in america today, i would say that we are covering the politics of it very well. we sort of know what's going on in the senate subcommittee of the judiciary committee, but do we know what's going on in their lives? are we living with them and telling their stories? and the answer is no. and i think that sort of a national problem and it's not just down here. who but we don't see reporters in the field. without a proper driver's...
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that in america they are white in america and it's won the battle in saying that we are, you know, don't tread on me. so on the racism front don't tread on the national rights of the international front. you can take the a human rights violator to the criminal court. so the right of the international law that is a big struggle in america that has to be daring liberals. we are more apologetic and a little more forthright in the defense of international law despite the fact that bin laden was whoever he was, that there was so little thought america about the judicial assassination and the sovereign countries just because the pakistani government didn't launch a major protest to expose the ambassador doesn't mean that americans should sit back and say sometimes the means or okay if the end is good. my question is was the end of good? is assassination evergood and i think there is too much latitude that has to be confronted people don't come front liberals in america that's related to drones which is another issue you talk about. that isn't about yemen and afghanistan. that is an american st
that in america they are white in america and it's won the battle in saying that we are, you know, don't tread on me. so on the racism front don't tread on the national rights of the international front. you can take the a human rights violator to the criminal court. so the right of the international law that is a big struggle in america that has to be daring liberals. we are more apologetic and a little more forthright in the defense of international law despite the fact that bin laden was...
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[applause] >> host: joining us on booktv, bill bryson, one summer in america, 1927. why 1927? >> guest: well, i had always been fascinated by the fact that -- i just had it in mind that maybe it would be interesting to try to do a dual biography of these two guys with a meeting in the summer of 1927. that was my first thought. then when i began looking into what else happened in the summer of 1927, i found those were only just two tiny parts. there was all kinds of other stuff happening in the summer. the great mississippi flood. the biggest natural disaster in american history. and you had al capone beginning -- the beginning of the end of al capone, and the end of prohibition. the information that it was coming to an end. you had the -- building mt. rushmoore, and coolidge announced he did not run for re-election. for reasons that are still slightly mystifying. henry ford had a madid -- a madid to build a city. so this book came not just looking at these two figures, baby ruth and lindbergh but looking at everything that was happening. it was kind of frenetic amount of activ
[applause] >> host: joining us on booktv, bill bryson, one summer in america, 1927. why 1927? >> guest: well, i had always been fascinated by the fact that -- i just had it in mind that maybe it would be interesting to try to do a dual biography of these two guys with a meeting in the summer of 1927. that was my first thought. then when i began looking into what else happened in the summer of 1927, i found those were only just two tiny parts. there was all kinds of other stuff...
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. >> everybody live somewhere and you were telling us where we live in america the end of the suburbs. can you tell us about your title? guest of the main idea behind the book is that more than half a century of expansion into the suburbs the suburbs are at this sort of more than any other place the sort of cultural pillar of america. it embodies the american dream. it's the image of suburbia that people strive for and where most people live but that is changing. it's changing pretty dramatically. these changes happen slowly over time but every indicator you look at a showing this. we are tiring of this way of life and the reasons behind that are numerous and they are complex and they have been kind of grinding away for a number of years. but, the data the indicators out there, the sense of the american people who live in the suburbs we are really looking at a seismic change in how and where we live. i just thought there was a really momentous trends and one worth delving into so i did. >> host: i will be interested to hear about these indicators but first i wanted to know what inspir
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. >> next, from the annual publishing industry tradeshow, book expo america. a panel discussion on the future of the publishing industry. it's 45 minutes. >> hello everybody. i'm the director for the center for publishing at new york university and thanks so much
. >> next, from the annual publishing industry tradeshow, book expo america. a panel discussion on the future of the publishing industry. it's 45 minutes. >> hello everybody. i'm the director for the center for publishing at new york university and thanks so much
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and he said, well, what do you think, this is someplace like america? >> wow. >> it's a good book. >> do you know who the author is? >> no, i don't remember. >> okay. all right, i'll look it up. oh, okay. >> how many rust belt cities did you see that kind of bucked the trend and really didn't have a significant, you know, downfall in. >> well, definitely chicago. i devoted a whole chapter to that. it was from a comment i overheard from people actually working in a bookstore in lansing, and they said we're all going to end up in chicago. [laughter] so it's kind of a rite of passage, you know? you go to high school, you go to college, you spend maybe a year or two off on a low wage job, and then you move to chicago. which is what i did. i followed all my friends to chicago in the mid 1990s. they just were suddenly picking up and moving during that recession. and, i mean, chicago -- there are a couple reasons. back in the '80s when i, during the period i was reading about, people did think it was going to become a rust belt casualty. and a couple reasons w
and he said, well, what do you think, this is someplace like america? >> wow. >> it's a good book. >> do you know who the author is? >> no, i don't remember. >> okay. all right, i'll look it up. oh, okay. >> how many rust belt cities did you see that kind of bucked the trend and really didn't have a significant, you know, downfall in. >> well, definitely chicago. i devoted a whole chapter to that. it was from a comment i overheard from people actually...
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so in 1875 there is a depression across america. were actually it started a couple of years ago to virginia city ralston had been spending money that really they didn't have and they are supposed to have $2 million in their vault in august of 1870. there is $500,000 and then a bunch of ious from all sin. when that happened, this is where his poker playing comes in. in late august sharon goes into the mining stock market and throws all of the stocks out there for sale. and they say it was the largest sale in the history of the stock market. there have been rumors about what was going on. about ralston overplaying his hand when the pattern. in an sharon was trying to get money to save the bank of california and and he had that money in wells fargo bank, part of his own money. but the rumor had spread and by 230 in the afternoon, the bank in the street outside the bank crowded with people. they think the bank is going to collapse. if ralston could make it to 3:00 o'clock, he could get the wealthiest people to stand behind him and he mi
so in 1875 there is a depression across america. were actually it started a couple of years ago to virginia city ralston had been spending money that really they didn't have and they are supposed to have $2 million in their vault in august of 1870. there is $500,000 and then a bunch of ious from all sin. when that happened, this is where his poker playing comes in. in late august sharon goes into the mining stock market and throws all of the stocks out there for sale. and they say it was the...
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-- places in north america. because here right, just right on our ground africans and europeans and american indian people came together and really began to work together to create an american civilization and an american society. in the first, really this is one of the very first times that this happens. so it's happening right here, and under this ground the archaeological investigation has shown evidences of the way these three cultures came together. so it's a very exciting thing to be welcoming mac's book back to this site. and she, of all the historians and scholars that i've worked with over many years, has such a profound sense of sight and of -- of site and of place. as you have heard, she has gathered material for this from around kentuckys -- archives on four continents and brought together an extraordinary kind of learning. but the thing that makes her unique is her ability to see and to capture through her eyes a kind of sense of how landscapes work. so it's a great pleasure for me to be here today
-- places in north america. because here right, just right on our ground africans and europeans and american indian people came together and really began to work together to create an american civilization and an american society. in the first, really this is one of the very first times that this happens. so it's happening right here, and under this ground the archaeological investigation has shown evidences of the way these three cultures came together. so it's a very exciting thing to be...
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it is the unwinding of america, but also the middle class. you need people who love jobs, have been found in ice, whose have declined rather than rising away. the policies expected them to do in this country. it's really a very provocative and important book. so that i recommend highly. i am looking forward to rachel kushner's, the flamethrower. i haven't read back at them but the story of a young woman in the 1970s. what intrigues me about it besides just the story is that laura miller talk about how rachel kushner's authority in this book is really intriguing, but also rattling sound of reviewers who weren't used to a woman taking the liberty she take in the books. i can't wait to see what it really means. and finally, i am also getting around to steer itself that came out earlier this year. it is a big book. schlepping it to the beach will be found. it is intellectual history and also wove in and with the coming of the prosecution of world war ii, tying the international together in a way that most scholars cannot do and also tracing the u
it is the unwinding of america, but also the middle class. you need people who love jobs, have been found in ice, whose have declined rather than rising away. the policies expected them to do in this country. it's really a very provocative and important book. so that i recommend highly. i am looking forward to rachel kushner's, the flamethrower. i haven't read back at them but the story of a young woman in the 1970s. what intrigues me about it besides just the story is that laura miller talk...
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the end of the war is over 30,000 british troops still in north america. but they just decide to leave. washington learns this lesson in the summer of 1776. there is a thought process that leads to learning the lesson that begins at that time. it is hard for him to accept this. eventually he does. if you think about it, many of the great generals in world history are losers. hannibal, napoleon, robert e. lee, rommel. washington was not a good general. he lost more battles than he won, but he was the winner. because of his resilience in the end i.t. out at the strategic level. i think my time is kind of a. what i will end with one somewhat controversial question question -- statement. when the war in iraq was ratcheting up, i got a call from the woman that does offense at "the l.a. times." she said, i want you to write an op-ed on what washington would do about iraq. what he would do about iraq. so i said stephanie, washington wouldn't know where iraq was. he wouldn't know about weapons of mass destruction, jihads, whatever. he said that's right. now write
the end of the war is over 30,000 british troops still in north america. but they just decide to leave. washington learns this lesson in the summer of 1776. there is a thought process that leads to learning the lesson that begins at that time. it is hard for him to accept this. eventually he does. if you think about it, many of the great generals in world history are losers. hannibal, napoleon, robert e. lee, rommel. washington was not a good general. he lost more battles than he won, but he...
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i have also lived half my life in south america. a lot about bolivar, but i have learned just from listening to you a number of things, including the wonderful stint in colombia and the battle. we hear a lot to commend it irritates me as someone who loves this to hear about the late departed executive to the president of venezuela who used this human bolivar as a tool to badly govern a wonderful people and a wonderful country. to what extent he lived a long time in venezuela, to what extent was hugo chavez distorting history and just doing their usual grab that he did, work is there a serious historical responsible basis for using bolivar as part of the venezuelan package? >> thank you for that question. a very good question. there is very little. and think about this in the epilogue. a very little to compare. except for the thing that everybody since bolivar died, and he died as -- absolutely destitute. he -- the data very rich man. but bolivar it is amazing to see people on the right use them. people on the left use in for hug
i have also lived half my life in south america. a lot about bolivar, but i have learned just from listening to you a number of things, including the wonderful stint in colombia and the battle. we hear a lot to commend it irritates me as someone who loves this to hear about the late departed executive to the president of venezuela who used this human bolivar as a tool to badly govern a wonderful people and a wonderful country. to what extent he lived a long time in venezuela, to what extent...
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it was the most powerful for 200 years in america wins world war ii. like the shot of her rant, the sender is to western schools, get rid of the burqa is. until the muslim brotherhood started in 1928 and they said stop trying to be at the west and organized to pull the rugs out and reinstitute fundamental islam. under jimmy carter camus told to write out from underneath a shot. .. he does not do the same and as a matter of fact, some of the slides i have here i show people that he has been putting on his staff, and so these are just some pictures you can look at the screen and i going to get the one -- here we have nancy pelosi submits to islamic law, hillary clinton puts on the muslim veil. and we have muslim postage stamps and another president bells to the king of saudi arabia. the king of saudi arabia is like the godfather of islam because the two holy cities and islam are in that country. and so he says whatever we want or we are no longer a christian nation. he has four brothers and wives in kenya and campaigns for muslims. 3,000 muslims in the u
it was the most powerful for 200 years in america wins world war ii. like the shot of her rant, the sender is to western schools, get rid of the burqa is. until the muslim brotherhood started in 1928 and they said stop trying to be at the west and organized to pull the rugs out and reinstitute fundamental islam. under jimmy carter camus told to write out from underneath a shot. .. he does not do the same and as a matter of fact, some of the slides i have here i show people that he has been...
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but if it came up in the of the context that you raised first, it's just part of life in america. >> ladies and gentlemen, on that note, floyd has kindly agreed to sign his book. again, critics have given it an incredible review, and it's just a breathtaking book. i've read and it's breathtaking. i would strongly urge you to have your book signed by floyd but if you could just remain seated for about 20 seconds. my last question to float, could you tell us if the society for challenge into getting and the supreme court questioning? [laughter] >> certainly much more relaxing. >> actually. on outlook know, ladies and gentlemen, please join me in thanking one of the most brilliant scholars and lawyers that this nation has had that has impacted many of our lives on a regular basis. thank you. [applause] >> you are watching tv on c-span2. 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend. >> up next, booktv's peter slen into his office and one. this weaknesses concludes with military historian antony beevor followed by victorian era expert judith flanders. antony beevor talked about
but if it came up in the of the context that you raised first, it's just part of life in america. >> ladies and gentlemen, on that note, floyd has kindly agreed to sign his book. again, critics have given it an incredible review, and it's just a breathtaking book. i've read and it's breathtaking. i would strongly urge you to have your book signed by floyd but if you could just remain seated for about 20 seconds. my last question to float, could you tell us if the society for challenge...
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and more recently "in a shade of blue" pragmatism and the politics of black america. following eddie the reverend dr. dr. james forbes the author of 2000 hymnbook "who's gospel" a concise guide to progressive protestantism and their final panelist will be this up in conversation in a moment, obery hendricks the author of "the politics of jesus" rediscovering the two true revolutionary of jesus teachings and the universe bends towards justice radical reflections on the bible of the church and body politics. taking a launch off of professor hendricks most recent title with a "that suggest what is the most iconic and popular image of black churches in african-american religion taken them not from none other than dr. martin luther king. a whole host of assumptions from for me think about our title has the church squarely fit in american democracy and black life? reimagined black churches on the front lines marching and we forget in fact dr. king represent a minority movement. i want to invite you professor hendricks and his we move to the panel to go in whatever direction
and more recently "in a shade of blue" pragmatism and the politics of black america. following eddie the reverend dr. dr. james forbes the author of 2000 hymnbook "who's gospel" a concise guide to progressive protestantism and their final panelist will be this up in conversation in a moment, obery hendricks the author of "the politics of jesus" rediscovering the two true revolutionary of jesus teachings and the universe bends towards justice radical reflections on...
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this is very important for how outsourcing happens from america, why you can have growth in america but no jobs. because now a small section of the american population can invent things like a medicine, a drug. and you don't need to hire people in america to make it anymore. you can make it in malaysia and sell it anywhere in the world. but you will collect rented on that med din -- rent on that medicine for as hong as you can maintain the patent on it. that was crucial to globalization. that changed. it was fought tooth and nail by the south. they lost that battle. so in the south commission, these intellectuals, these politicians gathered to discuss how do we survive in this new dispensation? and they had some furious and interesting debates. some of the debates were about politics. in other words, they understood that the maneuver to clean up the world bank of decent people, to clean up imf of decent people, to clean up most of the u.n. bureaucracy, you know, the united states fought very cleverly after the u.n. general assembly passed a resolution that zionism is racism. they fought
this is very important for how outsourcing happens from america, why you can have growth in america but no jobs. because now a small section of the american population can invent things like a medicine, a drug. and you don't need to hire people in america to make it anymore. you can make it in malaysia and sell it anywhere in the world. but you will collect rented on that med din -- rent on that medicine for as hong as you can maintain the patent on it. that was crucial to globalization. that...
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we start with collision 2012, obama versus romney and the future of elections in america followed by the author of collusion:all the media stole the 2012 election and how to stop them from doing it in 2016. at 10:00 p.m. eastern of elizabeth greenspan joins booktv on afterwards. it an interview with the former special master of the federal september 11th victims' compensation fund, mr. greenspan talked about her book battle for ground 0, inside the political struggle to rebuild the world trade center. we wrap up the prime time programming and a 11:00 p.m. eastern with the united states of paranoia:a conspiracy theory. visit booktv.org for more of this weekend's television schedule. >> when you write a book, a lot can go wrong. that is the way i approach the world. i am somewhat neurotic in my writing and reporting a lot can go wrong in 110,000 words. i have been pretty shocked. if there has been criticism from inside it is mostly in the vein of how dare he, how dare an insider give away the secret handshake, how dare an insider talk about other insiders in a way that perhaps might no
we start with collision 2012, obama versus romney and the future of elections in america followed by the author of collusion:all the media stole the 2012 election and how to stop them from doing it in 2016. at 10:00 p.m. eastern of elizabeth greenspan joins booktv on afterwards. it an interview with the former special master of the federal september 11th victims' compensation fund, mr. greenspan talked about her book battle for ground 0, inside the political struggle to rebuild the world trade...